Tony Banbury, the head of the UN Ebola response mission in West Africa, did not reach his goal of tackling the outbreak by December, 1. He told the BBC there is still a “huge risk” the deadly disease could spread to other parts of the world. Banbury spoke out from Freetown, Sierra Leone’s capital, where bulldozers […]
Many people have gone a little bit overboard in their judgement about who should be doing what, when someone made a mistake in terms of diagnostics or quarantine, and what health officials should do next. Well it’s not so simple when you are the one actually there, with patients, and a lot is on the […]
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OK. Ebola has gotten the nation and the world into a total frenzy, but of course, we’ve got yet another thing to worry about. The bubonic plague, a bacterial disease carried by rodents and passed to humans by flea bites, has now killed 40 people in Madagascar and is spreading, according to the World Health […]
The Ebola outbreak took over quicker than we could have imagined – not to mention how HIV and SARS took hold previously. The Obama administration doesn’t want to be blindsided again, so they’re putting the CDC to work with a Global Health Security Agenda with a requested $600 million. “It’s really urgent that we address […]
Bandits in Guinea held up a minibus taxi and stole a cooler of blood samples from a suspected Ebola patient as they were being transported to a test site in Gueckedou, officials said Friday. The samples are believed to contain the virus. Currently it is unclear why the roadside robbery took place or what the […]
A small district hospital in Northern California’s wine country is taking a big step to combat hospital-acquired infections and other bacteria. Sonoma Valley Hospital, overseen by the Sonoma Valley Healthcare District, recently acquired a germ-killing robot manufactured by Texas-based Xenex Disinfection Services. Its name is Lisa. From the Santa Rosa Press Democrat: “Unlike standard disinfection […]
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Ebola has reached the US, and hospitals across the country are preparing for the potential that patients will need to be screened and treated. Your hospital may have considered issues such as how to prevent the virus from spreading and how to identify patients who have, or may have, Ebola. Has your hospital, however, considered […]
Maryland doctor Martin Salia who was sent to Nebraska Medical Center on Saturday has died. Hospital officials confirmed the unfortunate news on Monday: “It is with an extremely heavy heart that we share this news,” said Dr. Phil Smith, medical director of the Biocontainment Unit at Nebraska Medical Center and professor of infectious diseases at […]
Dr. Martin Salia, as surgeon who has been working in Sierra Leone, has tested positive for Ebola and will be flown to the U.S. on Saturday where he will be treated at the Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha. The U.S. Embassy in Freetown, Sierra Leone’s capital, said Salia is paying for the expensive evacuation himself. […]
No, this game is not for fun. This 3-D training video game, created by Shift Labs, a Seattle-based startup, could make the preparation process for many healthcare workers in West Africa much safer and more effective, in terms of identifying the dos and don’ts of treating patients. The IMAI-IMCI Alliance, a global network of clinicians […]
Gabby Everett, the site director for BioLabs Pegasus Park, offered a tour of the space and shared some examples of why early-stage life science companies should choose North Texas.
More than 400 nursers and other staff members working at the only Ebola treatment clinic in southern Sierra Leone, in Bandajuma, have gone on strike because they have not been getting paid the $100 weekly “hazard payment” they were promised for putting themselves at risk in the clinic since September. The clinic is run by medical […]
Dr. Craig Spencer spoke today following his release from Bellevue, and he placed emphasis on the fact that his recovery shows how protocols are in place in the U.S. just as they should be. After treating those infected in Guinea with Doctors Without Borders, he talked about how the focus now really should be on […]
In Northern California, around 18,000 nurses will start a two-day strike today because they aren’t happy with the equipment and training standards in place to deal with Ebola. The strike will affect 21 hospitals and 65 clinics owned by Kaiser Permanente. Fortunately, the hospitals have plans in place and will go on with normal business […]
Kaci Hickox has been through a lot since she refused the requested at-home quarantine for 21-days, even though she tested negative for Ebola, and later having a judge rule in her favor. But just because that allotted monitoring time for the virus ends today, it doesn’t mean she and her boyfriend aren’t still subjected to judgement […]
All of the people in Texas who were being monitored for symptoms of Ebola have now passed the 21-day caution period. Getting some good news about Ebola stuff feels good. Finally. There were 177 people who had contact with either Thomas Eric Duncan, the Liberian national who was the first one diagnosed in the U.S., […]